Ciarán Byrne

It's probably the quickest, cheapest way of doing it.

because it's effectively an open chute into your home.

And depending, I had a house at one point and the wind used to whistle down the chimney, but we've all had that experience.

Oh, yeah, yeah, they're very effective, yeah.

And then you can do all sorts of fancies of more permanent solutions, but certainly the first down to the hardware store, relative cheap, get the chimney balloon and block it up.

Yes, probably.

If you're in a protected structure, you've got actual listings and things like actual regulations around that.

And we'd always advise people in those kinds of homes, if you're not even sure, speak to your local authority.

And so the local authority give you advice.

And so we would advise the caller to go with that advice.

OK, so that's going to add to the expense, obviously, for hiring an architect.

Possibly.

Now, whether it's an Arctic specifically, they might check with the council.

But if it's a protective structure, typically look in conservation and things like that and making sure that what you've planned in terms of solar PV fits in and there's various conservation queries.

But we would advise doing that because then if you don't do that, you end up potentially being in an infringement situation.

OK.

Yeah, there's a grant available for that.

That's the external insulation wrap grant for detached houses up to €8,000.

And that would be a common enough situation where you might have three walls and you might have something like a brickwork at the front, things like that.

The contractor will be able to work around that.